# Do you routinely do 'docker system prune' or anything else to maintain your Discourse instances?

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [February 15, 2020, 8:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/do-you-routinely-do-docker-system-prune-or-anything-else-to-maintain-your-discourse-instances/141708 "2020-02-15T20:46:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![maiki](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/maiki/32/233950_2.png) [@maiki](https://meta.discourse.org/u/maiki)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2020, 9:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/do-you-routinely-do-docker-system-prune-or-anything-else-to-maintain-your-discourse-instances/141708/2 "2020-02-15T21:01:24Z")

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I let the Docker updater purge old containers when it runs low on space, but that only happens when I’m updating Docker, so its rare. Sounds like you have multiple Discourse instances going, I can’t speak to that.

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